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 What most people in the know don't yet know is that BTC doesn't end corruption because wealth begets wealth and so money tends to concentrate in the hands of less and less people. The only way to truly protect the world from corruption is to truly decentralize power by freeing people from the need to earn money to survive, freeing people from the need to beat others to survive, freeing people from zero sum Moloch dynamics. If not we are all serving the powerful and the wealthy and the short term gain so as to get a head in the rat race. 

Of course the only way to meet everyone's needs UNCONDITIONALLY without centralizing power is by raising awareness about the ways in which all of humanity's incentives are actually aligned in the long term, raising awareness about what humans fundamentally need to develop into helpful resilient members of society and facilitating the means by which everyone can VOLUNTARILY share and gift resources with everyone else so as to meet everyone's needs.